Construction Progress

ID: 5253 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the University of Washington Digital Archives.
This file appears in: The Collapse of the Division Street Bridge

The task for reconstruction was given to the Washington Paving Company, with this wooden span serving temporarily before a concrete bridge was completed in 1917.

This file appears in: The Collapse of the Division Street Bridge

By Steven Fry
It was a typical winter morning on December 18, 1915, as two streetcars began to cross the Spokane river via the Division Street bridge. When the cars met on the middle of the bridge, steel girders ripped from the bank. One streetcar hung up on the…